Barnard College Library Research
Guide
BC4391: Research Seminar in History
Professors Tragardh, Rao,Tiersten & Valenze
Fall 2002
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Barnard College Library Research
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Contents
Reference Books | CLIO |
Databases
& Indexes Online
Electronic Journals | News Sources | Primary Sources
| Subject
Guides Online
Catalogs | Interlibrary
Loan | European Studies Websites | Consultation
Request
Encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference books can provide useful background and factual information. They can also provide bibliographies that lead you to relevant books and articles. The reference books in this list are available in the Barnard Library reference area on the second floor. Ask at the reference desk for additional reference books.
Title: |
Call number: |
| Encyclopedia of Latin American History & Culture 5 vols | F1406 .E53 1996 |
| Encyclopedia of Mexico 2 vols | F1210 .E63 1997 |
| Mexico: bibliography | F1208.M4941993g |
| AHA Guide to Historical Literature | D20 .A55 1995 |
| Encyclopedia Judaica 16 vols. | DS102.8 E496 |
| Reader's Guide to Judaism | BM50 .R43 2000g |
| Encyclopedia of the Holocaust 6 vols. | D804.3 .E53 1990 |
| Encyclopedia of European Social History 6 vols. | HN373 .E63 2001 |
| Contemporary Italy: a Research Guide | DG577 .B85 1996g |
| Modern Germany 2 vols. | DD14 .M64 1998 |
| Weimar Era 1918-1933: bibliography | DD237 .S74 1977 |
| Dictionary of Art 34 vols. | N31 .D5 1996 |
| Historical Dictionary of the Napoleonic Era | DC147 D.N34 |
| France: bibliography | DC17 .C434 1990g |
| Historical Dictionary of Modern Spain, 1700-1988 | DP192 .H57 1990 |
| Victorian Britain: an Encyclopedia | DA550 .V53 1988 |
| International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences | H41 .I58 2001 |
| British Writers | PR85 .B688 |
| Bibliography of British History | DA530 .H35 1976 |
| Encyclopedia of Asian History 4 vols. | DS31 .E53 1988 |
| Japan : bibliography | DS806 .S475 1989 |
| India : bibliography | DS421 .G86 1984 |
| South Asian Cultural Studies: a Bibliography | DS339 .L365 1996g |
CLIO: the online catalog
CLIO: the Online Catalog for Finding
Books: CLIO (Columbia Libraries Information Online) is the online catalog for materials added to the Columbia University Libraries
since 1981. You can connect to CLIO from the Barnard Library Home Page or from Columbia University
LibraryWeb. CLIO can be searched by author, title, subject and keyword. Some sample searches:
author: mc caughey r
*use last name first
title: yale french studies
*journals are listed in CLIO with books, videos, maps and other
materials
*type in as much of title that you know; note locations and volumes
available
*note electronic or online journals
subject: italy--history--1922-1945
germany--history--19
east
india company
nasi gracia
*must use subject option and use L.C. subject headings
*can use a person or organization as a subject
keyword: arts napoleon
jew? peru? israel
(great britain or england) and homosexual?
*keyword searches search various parts of the library screen/record for words
*use most distinctive words *try multiple searches
Help for searching CLIO is available on the CLIO main search screen. For advanced keyword searching help
click here.
Historical
Abstracts
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/historical-abs.html
1982 to present. Citations to articles in world history excluding
U.S.
& Canada. From 1450 to present. Articles, books and dissertations.
try: lazaro cardenas
try: europe and (gypsies or romani)
try: (crime or punishment) and (england or great britain)
Humanities
Abstracts
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/humanities-abs.html
1984 to present. General humanities. Includes history as well as archaeology, art,
classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music,
performing arts and religion. Citations only.
try: education history mexico
try: gershom scholem
try: latin america and (jew+ or jewish)
PCI:
Periodicals Contents Index
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/period-cont-ind.html
Especially useful for finding articles published
in the 18, 19th and the early 20th century.
Interdisciplinary and includes international journals. Primarily humanities and social
sciences. Citations only.
try: dutch east india company
try: correa charles
try: fascis* and youth and ital*
Social Sciences
Abstracts
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/social-sci-abs.html
1983 to present. General social sciences. Includes social
history, anthropology, economics, foreign affairs, international relations,
political science, psychology, sociology and more. Citations only.
try: europe and (gypsies or romani)
try: india and (education or schools)
International
Bibliography of the Social Sciences
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/int-bib-soc-sci.html
1951 to present. Core social sciences, includes
history, demography, foreign affairs, international relations, psychology and
social issues. Includes international journals. Citations only.
try: spanish civil war
try: german or germany and (reparations or restitution)
try: crime and punishment and (england or great britain)
ATLA Religion Database + ATLAS
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/atla-religion-db.html
Major religious studies database providing citations to articles in religion and theology, including social aspects.
1949 To present.
try: nasi and gracia
try: bible and history and (16th or sixteenth)
try: musar movement
Bibliography of Asian Studies
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/bibl-asian-st.html
Major Asian Studies database. Interdisciplinary.1971 to present.
try: japan and korea and history (select East Asia)
try: education and india and british (select South Asia)
Art Index
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/art-abs.html
Art history and related fields. 1929 to present.
try: correa charles
try: napoleon I and arts
Bibliography of the History of Art
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/bibl-hist-art.html
1973 to present. Citations to articles on the art of Europe and the Americas.
try: napoleon I and arts
Hispanic
American Periodicals Index
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/hapi.html
1970 to present. Citations to periodical articles and other materials in the
social sciences and humanities. Covers Latin American, the Caribbean, U.S.
border regions and Latinos in the United States.
try: peru* jew*
try: lazaro cardenas
Handbook
of Latin American Studies
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/handbook-las.html
1935 to present. Major Latin American Studies database. Citations to
periodical articles, articles in books and papers world wide. Covers anthropology, art, economics, international
relations, literature, music, philosophy and sociology.
try: peru* jew*
try: mexico socialis* education
Index to Jewish Periodicals. 1963 to present. Butler Reference. R052.96 In25;current on CD-ROM
Searchable E-journal collections:
JSTOR.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/jstor.html
Searchable E-journal collection of full text of articles from periodicals, excludes current issues. History journals include
Journal of Modern
History, Renaissance Quarterly, Journal of the History of Ideas and more. Political
Science, Sociology and other subject areas are included.
Project Muse.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/muse.html
Searchable
E-journal
collection of full text
of articles from periodicals, includes current issues only. Interdisciplinary, includes
Journal of
Social History, Journal of World History and many other journals. Primarily humanities and
social science journals.
Lists of E-Journals:
Alphabetical and subject listing of electronic/e-journal titles available at the BC and CU Libraries. These journal titles are listed in CLIO and can be found by using the title search option.
Lexis Nexis.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/lexis-nexis-uni.html
Mid-nineteen eighties to present. Interdisciplinary database of over 1,800
sources including full text articles from newspapers, wire services and other
sources.
Historical
Newspapers online.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/historical-news.html.
Retrospective indexes to the New York Times and the
Times of
London.
CLIO. Check CLIO to locate newspapers owned by Columbia. Use title option, t=monde, t=frankfurter allgemeine zeitung, t=corriere della sera, t=pais
Subject
Guides to Online Resources on the Barnard Library Home Page. Click on history to look for
primary sources including EuroDocs.
http://www.barnard.edu/library/subject.htm
Great Britain.
Parliament. House of Commons. Index to Parliamentary Papers, 1801-1996.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/parliament-hc.html
On CD-ROM at
Butler and Lehman.
News Sources including newspapers, see previous section.
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1881. 6 vols. plus index. A13 .P7; On index table; citations to articles from this time period. British and American.
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodical Literature, 1824-1900. 5 vols. A13 .W45; On index table; citations to articles from this time period. British and American.
History:
Subject
Guide to Online Resources on Barnard Library home page
see above section or:
http://www.barnard.edu/library/subject.htm
Humanities
and History
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butlref/subj.html
Subject Guide to the Butler Reference Collection and Selected
Sources on the Internet.
Western
Europe and the European Union: Information Resources, print and internet
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/lehman/guides/westoid.html
from Lehman
Library.
Jewish Studies
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlj/
Latin American Studies
http://lanic.utexas.edu/
Middle East Studies
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm/
South
Asian Studies
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/southasia/cuvl/
Sarai: South Asia Resource Acces on the Internet. Includes access to
Digital
South Asia
South East Asian Studies
http://www.library.wisc.edu/guides/SEAsia/
Women's
Studies
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eguides/womenstudies/
Please note that Union
Theological Seminary, Jewish Theological Seminary, Teachers' College and the Law Library’s holdings are
not listed in CLIO and that they have their own online library catalogs. CATNYP is the
online catalog of the NYPL research library. These are alphabetically listed in the
A-Z listing of Databases and in Other
Library Catalogs.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/databases/resource_type_10.html
Aleph
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/aleph.html
The online
catalog of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America Library.
Pegasus
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/pegasus.html
The online
catalog of the CU Law School Library. Library includes major foreign language collections,
e.g. the legal literature of Germany, France and Italy.
Sophia
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/sophia.html
The
joint online
catalog of Union Theological Seminary Library and General Theological Seminary
libraries.
Educat
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/educat.html
The online catalog of the Milbank Memorial Library of Teachers College.
CATNYP The online
catalog of the NYPL Research Libraries.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/catnyp.html
Center
for Research Libraries Catalog
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/crl-opac.html
See description on home page. The library has many unique items including
non-U. S. newspapers.
Other
Library Catalogs: list
Listing of above and other library catalogs.
Interlibrary
Loan
Books, articles and dissertations not available at the Columbia University Libraries may be obtained from other
libraries usually with no cost to the patron. You may request an interlibrary loan at the ILL office in 307 Butler or
you may make an electronic interlibrary loan request. Click on "Interlibrary Loan & Circulation
Information" on the Barnard Library Home Page or click on "Request it Online" on the Columbia University Libraries Home
Page, or click here
Western European Studies Section Association of College & Research Libraries
WWW.Virtual Library: West European Studies
Indiana University Bloomington Libraries: Western European Studies
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Collections/Romance/westeur.html
Consultations with Reference Librarians
Click here to complete a form you can e-mail to the library requesting a consultation on your research, or come to the Reference Desk on the second floor. To contact a reference librarian, e-mail refdesk@barnard.edu or call 212-854-3953. We'll be pleased to help you find additional information.
kdobrusky@barnard.edu or kdd1@columbia.edu
X4-8595